High impact information on stil

• The Drosophila gene stand still (stil) encodes a novel protein required for survival, sexual identity and differentiation of female germ cells [1].
• The similarity of the mutant phenotypes of stil to that of otu and ovo suggests that the three genes function in a common or in parallel pathways necessary in the female germline for its survival, sex determination and differentiation [2].
• Using P[stil+] transgenes, we show that stil and a closely localized gene are involved in the modification of the ovarian phenotypes of the dominant alleles of ovo caused by heterozygosity of region 49 A-D [2].

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